tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86673058889504523 2012-02-12T16:04:09-08:00 Kitchen Kwento chronicles the connections between food, memory, sustainability, and place. Come catch a glimpse of foodways in America through a Filipino American lens. TypePad KitchenKwentohttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b01630139960d970d 2012-02-12T16:04:09-08:00 2012-02-13T14:19:25-08:00

Mount Mayon rises like a dream in Donsol. Bicol is my father’s childhood region. It is coconut country. It is sili country. It is an alchemy of flavors, with dishes of smoky coconut milk laced with birdseye chilis. But while I dreamt of laing and pinanggat and chili-rich Bicol Express,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/WPBE-8FJZyo" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2012/02/butanding-and-bicol-express.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b016760f33c9c970b 2012-01-23T07:44:24-08:00 2012-01-23T07:48:41-08:00

The Year of the Water Dragon is here. In the Philippines, January is thick with fiestas and areas such as Binondo in Manila are in full festival mode. But the place where my parents live is quiet, and just a few lonely firecrackers popped into the night. I suddenly missed...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/sqczBKUvKL0" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2012/01/dragon-year-dragon-fruit.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b0162ff205018970d 2012-01-06T10:41:29-08:00 2012-01-08T05:33:35-08:00

Happy New Year. I spent the first day of 2012 in the sky, waking and dozing over the restless Pacific. Hours of darkened skies transformed into dawn just as the plane shouldered into Manila. Now I write from my parent's quiet home, awake with jetlag yet soothed by the night...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/YpU80yiWFF4" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2012/01/2012-is-in-the-details.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b015437c4474b970c 2011-12-22T00:09:18-08:00 2011-12-22T19:53:33-08:00

Soup makes my soul sing. Sharing soup with company is, well, even better. As the winter has slowly crept in I have been dreaming of a time to bring together family stories, warming soups, and many cooks in the kitchen. Last Saturday was the chance to do just that. Thanks...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/giT8bxLY9GY" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2011/12/filipino-soups-for-the-soul.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b01543749931e970c 2011-11-23T15:00:48-08:00 2011-11-25T11:45:08-08:00

This week, on Thanksgiving week, I want to pause in gratitude to hands and especially the hands of the farmer. There is no turkey dinner, no cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie, without someone's hands touching our food at each point in its nearly invisible journey - from the fields, the...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/bAtte4wj9xw" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2011/11/giving-thanks-to-the-hands-that-harvest.html